Living Computer Museum - a computer museum where you can touch everything, from Paul Allen



    Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation Paul Allen in many collects various kinds of equipment. Moreover, only in his backpack he carries a couple of dozen different devices, including tablets, smartphones and other devices. Paul and the old equipment collect, and at the same time he has accumulated so much that he founded two museums ( Flying Heritage Collection and EPM Museum ). The other day, the opening of the third museum, probably one of the most interesting museums of computer technology.

    The fact is that, firstly, all the equipment in this museum is in working condition. Secondly, all the equipment can be touched, which cannot be done in any other computer technology museum. Living computer museumincludes exhibits from the last 50 years of computer development. Not a single exhibit, even the most valuable, has a “do not touch” plate, as there are no barriers.

    Museum employees are working to ensure that all exhibits are in working condition, regardless of how closely visitors are familiar with this technique. Everything from Radio Shack TRS-80 to PDP-7 is able to turn on and process data.

    Paul Allen himself believes that his museums provide a certain guarantee that the work of ordinary engineers and researchers who have created a lot of useful things will not be forgotten. Both the website and the museum itself contain a large amount of information about many people who paved the way for the progress of computer technology. Paul, he said, worked with every copy exhibited at the museum every day during certain periods of time from the 1960s to the 1980s. And many Microsoft designs were created specifically on these devices.

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